Beyond Answers

<p><i>Beyond Answers: Exploring Mathematical Practices with Young Children</i>, author <b>Mike Flynn</b> provides teachers with a clear and deep sense of the Standards for Mathematical Practice and shares ideas on how to best implement them in K-2 classrooms.</p><p>Each chapter is dedicated to one of the eight common core standards. Using examples from his own teaching and vignettes from many other K-2 teachers, <b>Flynn</b> does the following:</p><ul> <li>Invites you to break the cycle of teaching math procedurally</li> <li>Demonstrates what it means for children to understand not just do math</li> <li>Explores what it looks like when young children embrace the important behaviors espoused by the practices</li> <li>The book's extensive collection of stories from K-2 classroom provides readers with glimpses of classroom dialogue, teacher reflections, and examples of student work.</li> <li>Focus questions at the beginning of each vignette help you analyze the examples and encourage further reflection.</li> </ul><p><i>Beyond Answers</i> is a wonderful resource that can be used by individual teachers, study groups, professional development staff, and in math methods courses.</p> Introduction; Chapter 1: Mathematical Practice 1: Make Sense of Problems and Persevere in Solving Them; Chapter 2: Mathematical Practice 2: Reason Abstractly and Quantitatively; 3: Mathematical Practice 3: Construct Viable Arguments and Critique the Reasoning of Others; Chapter 4: Mathematical Practice 4: Model with Mathematics; Chapter 5: Mathematical Practice 5: Use Appropriate Tools Strategically; Chapter 6: Mathematical Practice 6: Attend to Precision; Chapter 7: Mathematical Practice 7: Look For and Make Use of Structure; Chapter 8: Mathematical Practice 8: Look For and Express Regularity in Repeated Reasoning; Chapter 9: Putting It All Together